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Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts. Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Hägerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.

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Author:   Richard B. Allen
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   10
Weight:   0.870kg
ISBN:  

9789004469648

ISBN 10:   9004469648
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   14 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of Figures, Maps and Table Notes on Contributors Introduction: Slavery, Slave Trading, and Bonded Labor Studies in Asia  Richard B. Allen Part 1: Conceptualizing Slave Status 1 Slavery and Forced Labour in Asia: Status Quaestionis  Anthony Reid 2 Between Slave and Disciple in South Asia  Jessica Hinchy 3 Gender and Slavery in Asia  Shawna Herzog Part 2: Slavery, the State, and Society in East Asia 4 Slavery and the Mongol Empire  Don J. Wyatt 5 Economic, Social, and Legal Aspects of Slavery and Indentured Labor in Late Ming China (1550–1644): What the Huizhou Documents Tell Us  Harriet T. Zurndorfer 6 Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China  Claude Chevaleyre 7 Korea: A Slave Society  Christopher Lovins 8 The Abolition of Slavery, Constitutional Reforms, and Modernity in Late Qing China  Bonny Ling Part 3: Slavery, Servitude, and European Colonialism 9 Slaves, Weavers, and the Peopling of East India Company Colonies, 1660–1730  Michael D. Bennett 10 Slavery, Conflict, and Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines  Stephanie Mawson 11 Pearling and Slavery in the Sulu Zone, 1882–1884: The Letters and Diary of Thomas Henry Haynes  James Francis Warren 12 Slavery through Missionary Lenses: Timor in the Nineteenth Century  Hans Hägerdal 13 Indebtedness, Socio-Cultural Hierarchies, and Unfree Labor on Nineteenth-Century Ceylonese Plantations  Rachel Kurian and Kumari Jayawardena Part 4: Reflections 14 Slavery in Asia and Global Slavery  Jeff Fynn-Paul Bibliography Index

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Richard B. Allen, Ph.D. (1983), is the author of European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850 (Ohio University Press, 2014) and numerous articles, book chapters, and essays on slavery, slave trading, abolition, and indentured labor in the Indian Ocean world and Asia.

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